#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation

Lex Fridman Podcast

• Episode: #344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
• Website: Lex Fridman Podcast
• Feed URL: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/
• Duration: 02:33:57
• Published: 2022-12-06 18:23

Noam Brown is a research scientist at FAIR, Meta AI, co-creator of AI that achieved superhuman level performance in games of No-Limit Texas Hold'em and Diplomacy. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - True Classic Tees: https://trueclassictees.com/lex and use code LEX to get 25% off - Audible: https://audible.com/lex to get 30-day free trial - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off - ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod to get 3 months free EPISODE LINKS: Noam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/polynoamial Noam's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noam-brown-8b785b62/ webDiplomacy: https://webdiplomacy.net/ Noam's papers: Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10119653 Superhuman AI for heads-up no-limit poker: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10077416 Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097 PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: - Check out the sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (05:37) - No Limit Texas Hold 'em (09:30) - Solving poker (22:40) - Poker vs Chess (29:18) - AI playing poker (1:02:46) - Heads-up vs Multi-way poker (1:13:37) - Greatest poker player of all time (1:17:10) - Diplomacy game (1:27:01) - AI negotiating with humans (2:09:26) - AI in geopolitics (2:14:11) - Human-like AI for games (2:20:12) - Ethics of AI (2:24:26) - AGI (2:28:25) - Advice to beginners